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Speaker Cable w/ SureGrip 100 Connectors
Often, the choice between terminating your speaker cables with spade lugs or banana plugs will come down to personal preference. However, the EU-compliant isolated binding posts used on some power amplifiers often makes it difficult if not impossible to tighten spade lugs with high torque or pressure. In these applications, the AudioQuest banana connector is the superior choice, and may be the only choice.
AudioQuest has conducted a fairly extensive survey of contemporary amplifier manufacturers to determine whether spades or bananas will be most appropriate for a given brand and model of amplifier. Please contact us, provide the brand and model of the amplifier, and we’ll respond with the optimal connector type.
Here we typically recommend the U-Spade or banana connector. However, even though there is less weight and pressure on this side of the cable (particularly for BiWire sets), it is nevertheless important to note the binding post’s design. If a banana connector cannot seat all the way into the binding post, we recommend one of our spade connectors.
Semi-Solid Concentric Long-Grain Copper (LGC) Conductors
In a conventional multi-strand cable, distortion caused by electrical and magnetic strand interaction is compounded as each strand changes position within the bundle. In an AQ Semi-Solid Concentric cable, strands within the bundle maintain their fixed relationships, significantly reducing distortion. Long-Grain Copper (LGC) allows a smoother and clearer sound than cables using regular OFHC (Oxygen-Free High-Conductivity) copper. LGC has fewer oxides within the conducting material, less impurities, less grain boundaries, and definitively better performance.
Double Spiral-Pair Geometry
A typical speaker cable with parallel conductors has fairly high inductance, smearing energy across time, which results in sound that is dull and unfocused. In Rocket 11/22, the two conductors in each half of the cable are twisted around one another, providing lower inductance, greater clarity, and superior bass-to-treble frequency extension
PVC Insulation
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Semi-Solid True-Concentric Long-Grain Copper (LGC)
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Directionally-Controlled
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Double Spiral-Pair
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Cable Length |
8 ft = 2.4 m
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Jacket |
Black PVC with Gray Stripes CL3/FT4
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Rocket 11 Full-Range$379.95 View details | Rocket 22 Full-Range$539.95 View details | Rocket 33 Full-Range$669.95 View details | Rocket 44 Full-Range$879.95 View details | |
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Semi-Solid True-Concentric Long-Grain Copper (LGC)
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Semi-Solid True-Concentric Perfect-Surface Copper (PSC) & Long-Grain Copper (LGC)
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Solid Perfect-Surface Copper (PSC) & Long-Grain Copper (LGC)
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Solid Perfect-Surface Copper+ (PSC+) & Perfect-Surface Copper (PSC)
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Noise Dissipation |
Directionally-Controlled
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Carbon-Based Noise-Dissipation
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Carbon-Based Noise-Dissipation
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Carbon-Based Noise-Dissipation
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Geometry |
Double Spiral-Pair
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Double Spiral-Pair
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Double Star-Quad
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Double Star-Quad
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